Indiana Legislation To Help Immigrant Students Afford College Stalls As DACA Fight Looms
As Gustavo Flores sat through a presentation on how to apply for a program to help first-generation students get into an Indiana university, he anticipated it could be an option to afford college.
Then the applications were passed out.
“First page I opened it and it says, DACA students did not qualify,” Flores says. “And I’ve been told about this program since freshman year. So it’s was like, ‘OK this is one way I could pay for college.’ And then just seeing that boldly right there it’s now, ‘Oh, there goes one thing that I can’t do. And that applies for a lot of other scholarships too.”
Flores, a senior at Shortridge High School who has attend Indianapolis Public Schools since a child, is one of the nearly 10,000 students and others in Indiana approved for DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects immigrants brought into the country illegally as children before June 2007.
- Source: WFYI Public Media
- Via: Eric Weddle
